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You made several references earlier to an administrative install point. I want to be clear that my instructions do not apply to an admin install. Please try the following steps: * Run the command <strong>AdbeRdr11002_en_US.exe -sfx_o"C:\Reader" -sfx_ne</strong> * This will extract 7 files into C:\Reader\ * Add your…

I am trying to install an MSI that accepts the path to a license file as a public property. Is there some area within package boot editor where I can specify an environment variable (either %modulepath% or %cd%) as part of a command line parameter and have it evaluated before being passed to msiexec? I have tried using…

It looks to me like he's calling it right. The log shows that it's trying to run an .exe package. It does look strange to me, because it also shows that it created the process successfully, suggesting that the executable is there and it was able to run. I think that this is a problem in the installer itself - perhaps some…

Thanks LGarvin, that clears it up. Do you know if there's any straightforward way to determine the cause of repeated failures?

I have found at least one snap-in that does not work in this configuration. The Citrix Single Sign-on component of the Citrix 6.5 AppCenter will throw an error message and fail to load if the Common Language Runtime has been set to version 4. To work around this, I removed the system environment variable COMPLUS_Version…

Isn't this the patch manager discussion forum?

You said that the behavior is expected because catalog synchronization overwrites original packages, but my packageboot.xml file is not overwritten during catalog synchronization, it is overwritten immediately after I click OK in the Package Content Editor dialog. Please try the following in your environment and let me…

As of JRE 6u10, the JAVAUPDATE=0; JU=0; AUTOUPDATECHECK=0; IEXPLORER=1; MOZILLA=1; and ADDLOCAL=ALL switches are deprecated, though they seem to have continued to work until sometime around update 18. At around that time, Sun/Oracle began installing the auto updater as a separate package. The recommended method to disable…

PatchManager appears to have a feature that might be similar to what you were describing. In the Select Package view of the Package editor, click the Advanced button at the bottom. This brings up a window that includes a section titled "Bundled Packages". I've never used this and haven't looked it up in the administration…

Also, be sure you add the latest updates and edit the PATCH directive in your setup.ini to include them. Two new security updates have been released since I wrote the instructions.…

In the package editor try adding the switch /sAll to the command line field

hmm.. interesting! I'll take a look at that, thanks

Never mind, I see that you just discussed this very topic in the thread

This happens to me too and its extremely frustrating. I have to go through every few months and clean out managed computers and delete my task history to get the alerts to stop. This has been an issue in PM for years. I wish it would be fixed.

So are you saying that if I delete the 3rd party catalogs from the Other Catalogs tab, they will be removed from the subscription list, and they won't return even after I run the sync, but they will be repopulated the next time I run the wizard? I'll stay tuned to hear what you learn from the Development group on the…

That's a good point, . I would have probably created a batch file to run the two commands and then called it from packageboot, but xcopy is a cleaner solution.

I assume that AcroRead.mst is the correct name of your transform and that the transform has been included in the package, is that correct? If you added any new files since originally publishing the package, did you delete and republish the package? Have you tried running the setup.exe bootstrapper manually to confirm that…

Unfortunately %cd% didn't work for my situation since I was trying to pass the current path to msiexec as part of a public property. It seems that the variable isn't parsed before being passed and msiexec.exe doesn't evaluate it either, so I'm looking for another alternative.

As you say, these rules should return applicable for any computers running Windows 2000 SP4 or later, though you say that these rules are different from the ones you tested. Two questions: 1) Have you tested with these rules and what was the result? 2) What is your "testing" method? What are you doing to cause your test…

Thanks for the tips, but I am trying to patch Adobe Acrobat, not Reader. There is no 9.5 (Full) patch for Acrobat - the only full installer is 9.0 and then 13 .msp patches are required to get up to 9.5.2

Thanks Michael, but the message is still not informative. I realize that the yellow icon means there's a problem inventorying the computer, but what is the meaning of the information in the error message, or is it simply listing what could not be updated rather than the reason it could not be updated? How can I find where…

There's a typo in that link. It should be http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/patchman/docs/PatchManagerAdministratorGuide.pdf

Hi @jhynds, I would be glad to take a call and answer any questions about my feedback, but I haven't used PM in about a year. I am currently working with Shavlik under a new employer and have become frustrated with some of their unique quirks. I came back to find out if any progress had been made in PM that would allow me…

Thanks!

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. It leaves me with a question, though. The Google Chrome update is designed to replace any per-user installations with a per-machine installation. But due to the limitation you described, would the agent even be able to detect that an outdated per-user installation exists?

Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I might need to consider something like that

When you removed the date parameters from your package, did you expire the old version before republishing it? It's possible that your test workstation has cached the original package with the date rule and continues to apply it. Try expiring the package, allow the workstation to detect that it has been expired so that it…

I have reproduced the issue both with original packages directly from the catalog and with duplicates. It happens whether I have customized the package boot file myself or whether it was already customized in the package as received from the catalog. It appears to occur with any package that uses packageboot, but…

Thanks for the KB link, that information was helpful, but unfortunately didn't resolve the issue for us. From the certificate manager I was able to sort the certificates in the Third-Party Root Certification Authorities store by expiration date and delete the expired ones, but I was still left with 310 certificates - well…

Thanks, that was a huge help! From your links I found that you can make mmc.exe load the CLR4.0 runtime by setting a system environment variable. From windows 7, you can do this from an administrative shell with the following command: C:\>setx COMPLUS_Version v4.0.30319 /M You can verify your version of the CLRv4.0 runtime…